History
Kaminome Station opened on 1 February 1964 as Nishi-Iwadeyama Station (西岩出山駅) on the Rikuu East Line, in what is now the city of Ōsaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The station was absorbed into the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network with the privatisation of Japanese National Railways on 1 April 1987. It took its present name, Kaminome Station, on 22 March 1997. The station has a single side platform serving one bi-directional track and is unattended; it lies 28.6 rail kilometres from the Rikuu East Line's terminus at Kogota Station.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.